Colorful

December 02, 2009

I am offering reproductions of my original paintings at an affordable price.

They will make a great gift for the Holidays!

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He made everything look good
even on top of the dark brick walls in the gallery.

Dodi klimoff, Lonnie Beer, Dottie Leonard, and me

Some
really wonderful things happened as well because of the exhibit.

The day after
my paintings went up I got a call from the director of the Olitsky Art Gallery
located in Congregation Beth Or, Maple Glenn, PA. She expressed how
much she liked my paintings and asked me if I would like to exhibit in their
gallery.

I accepted and will be showing my work there in January.

The Opening
will be on January 8th and the exhibit will be up

until February 4th. More info to follow!

Ann Alberts, Gretchyn Hansen, and me

Another very cool thing that
happened at this exhibit was that a friend from high school (we graduated 1969)
who I reconnected with through facebookcame to the exhibit with her husband and
became one of my collectors. We hadn’t seen each other probably since the early
1970’s since I went back to Art school in Argentina and we lost touch.

October 09, 2009

I have been taking another one of Alyson Stanfield’s stimulating
online classes. I always get very
inspired and motivated while I take her classes. I meet new artists, and I
start to see my art career in a different way. Alyson is so knowledgeable and
the information she gives us is invaluable.

One of our lessons was to interview
ourselves and respond to our questions. We had to come up with about 10 questions. After thinking
about it, I came up with one at the moment. More will follow.

This is my 1st question: Why do I use bright
colors?

I use bright, bold, vivid colors when I paint. Which
had me thinking a lot about my choice of colors. I believe that it has a lot to
do with my upbringing and where I come from.

As I have mentioned in past posts and in my bio, I was born
in Buenos Aires, Argentina,
a very colorful city in every aspect. I also come from a very vibrant,
energetic family just as colorful as my hometown.

There are so many colorful feelings I have about my
childhood memories in Buenos Aires. One example is the color of the sky. It is deep
blue. I remember clear blue days with not a cloud in the sky. It’s a different
kind of blue than the sky here.I’m not sure why, but I still see it every time I go for a visit.

You
can see every color possible when you go to their
markets. But where you most see it is in the people. Buenos Aires is
one of the cities that never sleeps. Walking around you can see the
coffee houses full because everyone loves to go for a "cafecito" (a
little coffee) any time of day or night. Porteños
(name given to Buenos Aires natives) love to dance, eat, hang around
book stores and art galleries till the wee hours. This happens any day
of the week, not only the week-ends. They are always dancing away with
their colorful personalities. Buenos Aires Market. Photo by Jonathan Meter

April 29, 2009

I am totally enjoying this blogging class! It gives me a great challenge. We even have homework. Yesterday's homework was to list at least 20 ideas for blog topics. The 1st topic I came up with was about my doodling. I am a doodler. Are you a doodler? Do you know some doodlers?Being a dreamer (non diagnosed add maybe), focusing was always a challenge for me as a child. I remember being in school looking out the window, looking at the blue sky, the clouds move, and having no idea what was happening in class when suddenly I was asked a question. Have you ever experience that? It's one of those huh? Am I supposed to know what's going on here? Well, that was the story of my childhood. As I got older, I realized in one of those "aha" moments that while I was doodling I was listening to what was going on. I was actually focusing instead of dreaming about something totally unrelated. All of a sudden I was able to answer a question if asked. This goes back many, many years ago, probably back to middle school. Guess I made it through college and beyond with my doodles. My best ones in the last few years were done during our weekly faculty meetings while teaching. I am including some of them which I later used as my card designs or to inspire me in some of my paintings. The one above (on the left) started out as a doodle and moved on to becoming a note card (above at right). Following are a few more doodles.

This
photograph was taken in "La Boca" neighborhood during my trip to Buenos
Aires, Argentina in June of 2008. La Boca is the oldest, most colorful,
and most authentic neighborhood in Buenos Aires. The neighborhood was
settled and built by Italian immigrants that worked in the warehouses
and meatpacking plants in the area. La Boca is partly an artist colony,
and mostly a working-class neighborhood. All the houses in this
neighborhood are painted in very bright colors. This is the home to the
soccer team "Boca Juniors". The Boca Juniors is one of the biggest
soccer teams in Argentina and happens to be one of the clubs that the
soccer great Diego Maradona played for. Their stadium, La Bombonera, is
not so surprisingly located in the La Boca barrio.

Mate
is the national drink in Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, and a common
social practice in parts of Brazil, Chile and eastern Bolivia.The
drink is served with a metal straw from a shared hollow calabashgourd.
The straw is called a bombilla in Latin AmericanSpanish, a bomba in
Portuguese, and a masassa in Arabic. The straw is traditionally made of
silver. Modern commercially available straws are typically made of
nickel silver, called Alpaca, stainless steel, or hollow-stemmed cane.
The gourd is known as a mate or a guampa, while in Brazil it has the
specific name of Chimarrão or cuia.As with other brewed herbs,
yerba maté leaves are dried, chopped, and ground into a powdery mixture
called yerba. The bombilla acts as both a straw and a sieve. The
submerged end is flared, with small holes or slots that allow the
brewed liquid in, but block the chunky matter that makes up much of the
mixture. A modern bombilla design uses a straight tube with holes, or
spring sleeve to act as a sieve.

I
took this photograph of this wonderful music group in San Telmo last
June during my trip to Buenos Aires. San Telmo ("St. Pedro González
Telmo") is the oldest barrio (neighborhood) of Buenos Aires, Argentina
and also a fairly well preserved area of that constantly changing
Argentine metropolis and is characterized with a number of colonial
buildings. Cafes, tango parlors and antique shops line up the
cobblestone (adoquines) streets, which are filled with artists and
dancers.San Telmo's many attractions include many old churches,
museums, antique stores and a semi-permanent antique fair (Feria de
Antigüedades) in the main public square, Plaza Dorrego. Tango-related
activities for both locals and tourists also abound in the area.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Do you think it's ever too late to fulfill your dream or dreams? Do you
think there is an age limit to do what you really love? to do your
passion? What kept you back from not doing it earlier in life?I
am 57 and I am now doing my art full time. Do I wish I had done it
before? I don't know. I did many other things during the process and
now I'm here. Are you happy with your current profession? Is there a
dream you want to attain?

I feel very fortunate to be able to dedicate my time to doing my art full time. This has been one of my dreams for a long time.

I have been taking this amazing online class: with Alyson Stanfield, author of I'd Rather Be in the Studio!
The Artist's No-Excuse Guide to Self-Promotion. This is helping me
learn to promote myself as an artist. I first read the book and loved
it. Which took me to her website where I learned about her classes. You
should all check out Alyson's blog (Click on her name).We are now
on day sixteen and I have been learning so much about myself, my art
and how to promote it. This class has me so excited that I don't want
to stop working at night and can't wait to get up in the morning to
continue. I am so excited about all this that I signed up to take two
art classes at the Fleisher Foundation in Philadelphia:
http://www.fleisher.org. The Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, the
nation's oldest tuition-free art school, is guided by the spirit of its
founder, who first extended an invitation in 1898 for "the world to
come and learn art." They offer an exciting selection of tuition-free
classes and low-cost workshops for adults and children. Starting next
month I will be participation in an oil painting studio class and a
watercolor class.

So back to following your dream, or fulfilling your dream, do you think it is ever too late?